Liquid-soap fountain



N. S. HILLYARD.

LIQUID SOAP FOUNTAIN.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV.18, 1911.

1,020,758. Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

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NEWTON S. HILL-YARD, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 18, 1911. Serial No. 661.077.

7 1/ Nu wow/t it may concern Be it known that I, NEWTON S. HILLYARD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and Stateof Missouri. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Soap Fountains, of which the following is a specification.

'lhe object of my invention is to provide a fountain for liquid soap for use in public and private buildings in which by a simple and. inex 'iensive mechanism the quantity of soap used and the consequent expense may be regulated. I

. I accomplish my object in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the fountain supported by a bracket attached to a wall, a conductor with a spring and piston therein, the piston shown in position for discharge of liquidsoap, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation-of said device showing the opposite side of the conductor, the piston pressed up into filling position.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views, A .being the fountain, preferably of glass that the supply of liquid soap therein may always be visible. In order to fill the fountain it is first unscrewed from bracketcap C, shown in Fig. 1; the fountain is then lifted out of said bracket cap and reversed from the position shown in Fig. 1; it is then opened by unscrewing a smaller cap, D, and by lifting the piston E and the piston conductor F, with which cap I) is integral, out of the fountain. T he top end of piston E carries a'coil spring H in conductor F The upper end of said conductor is preferably closed, the closure serving as a. stop for the top end of the spring. But I reserve to myselfthe right to use a pin or any suitable 'means to form such stop. Said conductor F'is provided with duplicate parallel vertical slots f apd f spaced apart, slot f being shown in Fig. 1 and slot f in Fig. 2. A horizontal cross slot j forms connection between the top ends of said slots f and F. A plurality of vertical slots may be used, if desired, fornr ing connection with said single horizontal slot f.

I is a perforation near the lower end of conductor F.

J and J are recesses in piston Il' through which to obtain the desired quantity of shown in the figures.

liquid atone stroke of the piston. "Said recessJ is made larger than recess J, as

Either the large recess J or the small recess J will fill when the piston is pushed upftd the position shown in Fig. 2 and be discharged when the piston descends to the position shown in Fig. 1. I r

K is a pin inthe piston; to regulate the supply of liquid soap at one operation the piston is pressed up carrying pin .K upward through slot or f. \Vhen pin K has been carried to the top of slot f. the larger recess J is filled with liquid soap through perforation I. If a smaller supply of soap is desired, the piston is pressed up until pin K is at the top of the slot on a line hori zontal with cross slot f. The piston is then revolved carrying pin K through said horizontal slot f until the pin is at-t-he top of the opposite slot f when, by release of up ard pressure of the hand on the bottom of piston E the piston is instantly driven down. by coil spring H until recess J is lowered belowcap D. All of the liquid in recess J then flows down the lowcripart of said piston into the palm of the hand.

It will be seen that the device can be regulated in an instant to increase or decrease the amount of soap desired at a single operation of the piston by the use of one or the other of said recesses as hereinbefore described. Said pin K insures the retention of the piston in the conductor; also, when the pin is at the top of either slot, it insures the inflow of liquid soap throughperforation I. filling'the recess which is then in use; and when said pin is at the bottom of either vertical slot it insures the release of the liquid soap from the recess in use at the time.

Patented Mar. 19., 1912.

. hat I claim and desire to secure by Letincuts of different sizes forming recesses, a

pin rigid therein a-n'd-revoluble with said piston through said cross slot, said recesses being adapted to receive liquid soap from the fountain through said perforationwhen thepiston is elevated and a recess engages therewith and to discharge said soap when said piston is driven down by the spiral spring and a recess is below said cap.

2. In a device of the character described the combination with a fountain and a supporting bracket, therefor, of a vertical elongated clrcularoonductor forming a chamber v having astop'at the top, open at the bottom and'provi'de withvertical slots, a cross slot and a singleperforation, a cap integral with the bottom, of said conductor and engaging with the base of theofountain closing the same, a piston provided midway thereon withreoesses of different sizes incut therein,

a at the periphery of the top end of's'aid piston, a spiral spring seated on said piston permittingsaid piston to be pressed up said chamber'to receive a supply of liquid soap through'said perforation into arecess and to be driven down below said cap by said spring to permit said recess'to discharge its supply.

3. In a liquid soap fountain the combination of 'a conductor having an open bottom and a perforation for theingress of a liquid,

soap supply from the fountain, duplicate vertical spaced slots and a connecting cross slot in the sidesthereof, a spiral spring -,member in the upper part of said conductor, piston-member in the lower part of said conductor provided with duplicate recesses of 1 different sizes, a stationary pin near the top of'said conductor periphery, said pin being carried by said piston through said slots as the piston is operated regulating the stoppage of one of said recesses at said perforation'as it is pressed up and preventing its escape from the conductor when the recesses v in the piston are driven below said conducdifferent sizes adjustable to said aperture to receive a supply and discharge the same when the piston descends, and means to retain said piston member in said conductor member and operate the device. y

In testimony. whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

NEWTON s. HILLYA R D.

Witnesses: 1

MARIE IMITOHELL, Evnnngr'r HILLYARD. 

